DEPARTMENT: Milestones
Beyond Genetics: The Evolution of Bio-Digital Innovations
By Deepak Mahto, February 2024
By Deepak Mahto, February 2024
By Deepak Mahto, October 2023
By Deepak Mahto, June 2023
By XRDS Staff, January 2023
In this curation of his work, performance artist Stelarc, explains the process of extending his body and his self while exploring movement, sound, and autonomy.
By Stelarc, January 2023
By XRDS Staff, July 2022
By Manandeep, April 2022
By Manandeep, September 2021
By Manandeep, June 2021
By Kun Jin, June 2021
Though today we think of the web and social media as nearly synonymous, the technology of the early web made social interaction difficult. The author discusses her work creating some of the web's earliest social applications and asks why our interfaces for seeing and communicating with each other online are still so primitive.
By Judith Donath, March 2021
Whether working in academia, industry, or entertainment building a career means navigating a variety of challenges. The authors revisit a number of lessons learned while building systems (or records), how to transfer those lessons to new domains, how to turn your research skills on what you haven't learned yet, and build an extra curriculum for yourself.
By Henriette Cramer, Avriel Epps-Darling, March 2021
By Daniela Zieba, September 2020
By Daniela Zieba, July 2020
By Jovian Anthony Jaison, November 2019
By Daniela Zieba, April 2019
The XRDS blog highlights a range of topics from conference coverage, to security and privacy, to CS theory. Selected blog posts, edited for print, are featured in every issue. Please visit xrds.acm.org/blog to read each post in its entirety. If you are interested in joining as a student blogger, please contact us.
By Maria Gaci, January 2019
By Alok Pandey, September 2017
By Alok Pandey, June 2017
Young and early-career researchers at the 2016 Heidelberg Laureate Forum discuss how the frontier between mathematics and computer science is shifting, what the future promises, and the implications the frontier's shape and dynamics will have on both fields.
By Edmon Begoli, Vincent Schlegel, Michael Atiyah, Praise Adeyemo, Tim Baarslag, April 2017
By Ahmed Ansari, Raghavendra Kandala, June 2016
By Jay Patel, April 2016
By Jay Patel, December 2015
By Adrian Scoică, December 2015
By Adrian Scoică, November 2015
The lives and times of the British women who operated Colossus, and their all-important role in events leading to D-Day and the close of the Second World War.
By Michael Smith, March 2015
By Jay Patel, October 2014
By Jay Patel, June 2014
Creativity requires technical training, personal development, and the freedom to take risks regardless of your gender.
By Jesse Beach, June 2014
From the early 1980s to the present day, the tech industry, the law, and media representations have evolved in tandem, all hypnotized by the myth of "The Hacker"---an ideal coder, stereotyped as an exceptional young white man.
By Sarah Jeong, Colin McSwiggen, June 2014
By Finn Kuusisto, December 2013
Climate modeling has come a long way since von Neumann declared it a problem too hard for pencil and paper, but tailor-made for the new digital computers. As the models and computers both evolve toward ever-greater complexity, they are changing our notions of digital simulation itself.
By V. Balaji, March 2013
By Sumit Narayan, June 2009
By Lourens O. Walters, P. S. Kritzinger, December 2000
By Scott Ruthfield, September 1995
By Ben W. Brumfield, September 1995